The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-10-20
VOL. III. NO. 8.
CURRENT ropes.

4 KSoxvnEhegro docial ~ 4pfsiied
lscoasrsrmlr lace Is ne 9 te.4g from
tfappe.
BS.ssxxlee Dcassf was ncvsr shaved
DIN his life
c5krn vIcToai.'s court physician gets
$4,000 year.
TnK shipments OF celery from Kalama'
roo average flfty tons daily.
OSE factory In Newark, N. j., turns oui
10000 corkscrews in year.
THB hnngman Rt Fort Smith has put
ninety-four murderers 10 death
Br the last OF October 2,OoO mon will bo
ut work In the Brooklyn nAvysyard
QuEKS KArioLANi has bestowed upon
several Boston officials the Order of Kspl.
olani
Tnn very large yield OF nuts this year
prcssages cold winter SO say tho
prophets.
PAoE's jump OF six feet four inches over
bar-thus beating the records re-
markablo feat
Berlin is tho only largo German city
that refuses to velocipodlsts tho freedom
OF tho streets.
A FLoKIpA millionaire offers TO give 100 :
coo acres Of pine lands In Georgia 10 eyict-
oil Irish families.
1nERE are now In use li3,Oo0 nautical
mules OF cable. Nine cables connect Eu.
rope and America.
CHINESE troops stationed on the Russian
frontier have mntiniod and murdered n
number Of their ,fiicers.
Tnr day Ia rapidly approaching whom
the base ball bulletin boards will bo
nippcd By the early frosts.
EsoLAsp complains that Americans
have one nshlng policy for the Atlantic
and another for tho Pacific.
Tns Dominion GoYernment viii soon
send a carload OF Holsters 10 the Pacific
Coast for propagatlng purposes
NEw YoRK has eight State tickets In the
field. Tho last 70 wheel Into limo calls
itself the Personal Liberty party.
DR urNRr d. coddswgtI, OF San Fran.
ciaco, has endowed an Industrial school in
. that city To the extent OF si.00o,Ooo
BosroS conHErL the man who shot John
Wilkes Booth, has been placed in tho Kan.
sas State Insane Asylum a. incurablo. &
A NEw YonK bank teller Is missing, and
yet his accounts are all straight How
surprised the directors must have been.
TnE epidemic OF scarlet fever in Lon.
don continues 20 spread. There arc now
nineteen hundred cases in the hospitals.
Mus. HUonEs, mother OF Thomas Hughes,
t"Tom Brown, Of RuRby") died ut her
rcsidcnce at Rugby, TENT, a few days ago.
TnE London Telegraph thinks that, out OF
$50 mombcrs OF the House Of Lords only
about one hundred amount TO any thing.
IT ls reported thata being with face
that Is half man and half dog lives near
OH CITY, Pa He or II goes upon all
fours.
A BoHsE that recently fell on and killed
an Indian near Garfield, Idaho, was made
the subject Of n barbecue by the surviving
relatives
Mns. wnnuR =. SroREr has refused
tr00o for her interest in tho Chicago
nFss shc aspires TO obtain complete
control OF II.
SHERIDAN receives an Lieutenant Gen.
oral OF the Army q salary OF $1,000 a year,
With allowances which bring this amount
up 70 tia,0Oo
Tur organ in the now auditorium build
ing, In Chicago, viii be tho largestin tho
United States. II win contain 600 pipes
and cost 5000
TBE play.gocrs OF Now York are 20 havo
big Chinese theater which will c0s, $50.
600, New York and vicinity, has about
1900 Colostials.
DKSvER has arranged for Gilmore's band
md other talent for the celebration next
Juno of the thirtieth anniversary OF Col
orado's settlement.
MouST WILLIAMSON, in Iuyo Cal, is tho
grandcst peak In tho United States. II
Stands 1900 feet high. Two OF the three
submits are inaccessible.
MiSxIE RnoDrs, Of Chennngo, N. ",
phot herself rather than dig potatoes
enough for dinner, rs she had been or
dorcd by hcr prosaic father.
IT IS estimated that tho discoveries, in
vcntions and compounds patented each
year In the United States and never
amounting TO any thing cost s3oOo0Oo
A PnILADElriliA woman, Mrs. Lottie
/. Parker, is another victim to the tight lac
ing habit. Tho physicians testify that her
death from heart disease was due TO that
cause.
IL Memphis so many people have taken
out their telephones that the few remain-
ing subscribers have ordered out their in
struments on the ground that they have nc
one to talk TO.
NORM CARoTiSA is sparsely settled, and
IL is u strange fact that, although II is
three times as large us Massachusetts,, its
largest city, Wilmington, boasts OF only
$1,000 inhabitants.
PniLir HONEY, OF Stafford, Va, owns a
mule which is said TO have attained the
ago OF hfty.one years The animal, once
brown, is now beautiful gray and Is only
trife sway-backed
Al BuFrALo's head in bronze metal,
weighing 1900 pounds, will decorate the
eastern entrance OF the Union Pacific
railroad bridge over the Missouri river
connecting Council Bluffs with Omaha.
Tmr corn palace in Sioux City, Iowa, is
constructed entirely Of cars OF corn and Ia
wonderful affair All tho decorations
inside are made Of corn, and Mt the lunch
counter corncd beef is the piece do resist
nncc
MEMrHIs is in tho midst of u telephone
war.oyer one thousand persons having or
dcred the Instruments removed from their
houses. The prosont charges arc $50 per
annum, which tho company proposes 70
raise TO $1e.
TnE grave of Charlotte Temple in New
York Is visited by more tourists than any
oihor sepulcher, with the single exception
OF General Grants. 1t is in Trinity church
yard, near the entrance on the north side,
and is covered with q large brown stone
bearing the unfortunate girls name.
TnEnE arc four great accumulated
masses OF gold in tho worldi SsSs GOO OO.
In the United States Treasury, s2Si iOOO, ,OOl
In tho National Bank OF France, si0s ooooOl
in the National Bank OF Germany and
st0o, 900, 900 in the Bank OF England.
Tns Chicago Ne,cs printed welcomes tt
Cleveland in Algonquin, German, French
Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish, Bohemian